Wealthy Daughters and Pocket Money in New York
The piece surveys how wealthy families like Jay Gould Cornelius Vanderbilt and Willie Vanderbilt provide pocket money to their daughters, with strict cash accounts and fines for misbehavior. It contrasts lavish spending on parasols bonbons theater and clothes with parental discipline and fashionability in upscale New York society.
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Papa
Jay Gould
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Elliott F. Shepard
Willie K. Vanderbilt
Foreign and Home Mission
Fifth Avenue
New York Journal
Harvest event ends with silent response
A Kansas college professor gave a lecture in a town where the principal choir opened with What Shall the Harvest Be and solemnly sang Nothing but Leaves after the talk, reflecting a gentle joke on the speaker.
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Kansas College
Kansas
Topeka
Thunder Sound From Lightning Flash Explained
A Boston Budget summary notes M. Hirn describes thunder as air heated and expanded by a lightning spark. The rapid heating creates a long gas column, and the timing marks not only distance to the strike but the column length. The first sound can precede the struck location and resembles tearing linen.
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M. Hirn
Boston
Meanest thing in the world a gambler says vet eran sport
A veteran sport proclaims gamblers as the meanest people, likening them to thieves and Ishmaelites. He asserts they prey on the public, lack honor, and bring shame to their families, concluding that a gambler should not be allowed to marry.
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Bacchus
Ines
Thers
St. Nicholas
Balzac
Philadelphia Times
New York Mail and Express
Panorama Tickets Prompt Grammar School Query
A city panorama manager sent scholars tickets to grammar school principals offering admission at twenty five cents, half price. A pupil misinterpreted the offer asking if two tickets would admit him for nothing, prompting laughter from onlookers as reported by the New York Herald.
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Gras
Queson
New York Herald
Boxing boast from undertaker in old journal
A quip from an undertaker in a ledger reads I’m not much of a fighter but can lay out any man when boxing. The line reflects a tongue in cheek boast from a historical column.
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Undertaker
Uncongenial Tastes on a Summer Hotel Porch
A fragmentary dialogue on a porch sets social mood among travelers. gs and Attyst discuss preferences for seasons, while Jag¢s and New val remark on business and gas life amid a summer hotel scene.
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